Agricultural exploitation in the Brazilian Amazon Basin, including Para State, is a controversial issue. It puts ecological concern with tropical deforestation against the need of a growing population for land for food ...

Kahoʻolawe Island, Hawaiʻi is a wahi pana and a puʻuhonua, a sacred place and a place of refuge, according a U.S. Congressional report. Despite this official statement, multiple, overlapping, and contested views of Kahoʻolawe ...